Accounts Assistant (Accounts Payable)

We are on the hunt for a talented Accounts Assistant to join our Finance (Accounts Payable) team and help us champion garden living. We searching for someone who is a real number cruncher with analytical and practical thinking. Working within the Purchase Ledger team, you will be processing invoices, purchase orders and handling enquiries. You will provide great customer service to our suppliers whilst building strong relationships across the business.,

• Recording and updating purchase ledger invoices on our system


• Processing invoices and preparing for payment


• Completing regular supplier statement reconciliations


• Setting up new suppliers and building relationships


• Investigating queries by communicating with our various departments and stores
  
  Excellent organisation skills with strong attention to detail


• Highly numerate


• Strong planning, prioritisation, presentation, and problem-solving skills.


• Comfortable managing multiple tasks with tight deadlines


• Strong interpersonal skills, building strong relationships across the business


• Excellent written and verbal communication skills


• Can demonstrate our values at all times - we're one team, getting better everyday. We bring a smile. We live and breathe gardens. We make it work for our customers.
  
  At Dobbies, we're proud to have history dating back to 1865. Founded by James Dobbie, we're the UK's largest garden centre retailer, with 3,800 colleagues and 77 stores, including six little dobbies, and a Central Support Office near Edinburgh.


Our passion and joy for gardens and plants is what makes us special. In our stores, we showcase this through own brand and branded products, concession partners and services. We have something for every season, occasion and style of garden, outside and in.

Many of our stores also feature a restaurant or coffee shop, where customers can enjoy refreshments or meals in a relaxed and welcoming environment.

At Dobbies, we champion garden living all-year-round and offer a calendar of events and experiences that bring people and communities together.

We're committed to being a great place to work. We're one team and we encourage our colleagues to be the best version of themselves, every day; to share their wins and celebrate success. Together, we make it work for our customers.


• Discount - treat yourself with generous uncapped discount across our stores with 50% off in our Restaurants, 25% off in the Garden Centre and 10% off in our food halls


• Hybrid working - a combination of office and home working to help balance your work life balance


• Pension - save for the future with our company contributed enhanced Group Pension Plan


• Season ticket loans - spread the cost of travel with an interest free loan


• Access to Wagestream - support your financial wellbeing, with ability to access earnings ahead of pay day, save for the future and financial advice


• Access to Retail Trust - seek confidential support, access to a Virtual GP, free counselling service and discounted retail rewards with our employee wellbeing platform


• Access to Dobbies Academy - continue your development with our eLearning platform and development programmes


• Study assistance - invest in your professional development with funded courses and qualifications


• The little things to keep you going through the day - free tea, coffee, and milk


• Collaborative office space - with access to our wellbeing room, learning resources and even a book swap


• Invites to our annual company conference, summer and Christmas social events